Building Unity ​Through Community

What is Sag Harbor Partnership?

​Sag Harbor Partnership is a 501(c)3 designated not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the quality of life in Sag Harbor, NY.

The activities and programs of our organization include education, historic preservation of the built environment, preservation of the natural environment and related social and economic concerns, such as affordable housing and support for locally-owned small businesses. ​With funds raised through our fundraising activities, we will offer grants to support projects and other organizations engaged in work that further our stated purposes, including professional assistance.

meet the cinema's new executive director, gillian gordon

Gillian Gordon, a resident of Springs, East Hampton, NY, has been appointed the first Executive Director of the Sag Harbor Cinema.​​The Cinema's Search Committee and the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Board, working with Jobplex, a DHR International Company, unanimously approved Ms. Gillian as director after conducting a search of multiple qualified candidates. ​

An award winning producer and educator, Gillian Gordon has been working in the US, UK and Asia for the past 28 years as an Executive, and Producer. Ms. Gordon has been involved in film from every angle: teaching, film production (former COO of Harmony Pictures in Los Angeles), fundraising, as a trustee and Co-Chair of Filmaid UK and as Executive Director of the charity, Youth Culture TV, to her involvement in BAFTA, working as a Film Festival Judge, mentoring young filmmakers and as Film Consultant to the Singapore’s Media Development Agency. She brings a track record of producing successful TV drama for the BBC and ITV as well working for Film & General Productions, and Carlton TV.​

As a teacher and innovator, with extraordinary accomplishments and forward-thinking ideas, she has always been committed to the power of film to educate and inspire.​

Ms. Gordon has been a Senior Lecturer, and Director of Graduate Studies Taught in Media Arts since 2006 at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she ran a highly successful program in practical creative producing as well as screenwriting, script development, production management and global film finance. As an Associate Arts Professor of NYU, Tisch School of the Arts Asia from 2009-2012, she was Chair of the MA International Media Producing in Singapore.​

The Partnership joins the Cinema in applauding this important development.

an important update on the cinema

As you know, our volunteer workforce has been working very hard for the last 2 1/2 years on first purchasing, and now rebuilding, a bigger and better Sag Harbor Cinema. Its historic presence in the Village will be preserved in a way which will also improve it significantly.

Although we've been right on the nose in terms of basic construction costs, we still have to raise more money than originally anticipated. With the help of our structural engineers, we are only now finalizing the necessary work to be done to ensure that the integrity of what was left of the building after the fire becomes structurally sound, because it was discovered to be more compromised than the initial survey indicated. Building the 3rd floor for maximum use for offices and VR possibilities is a great benefit but also an added economic challenge. Design enhancements and equipment costs for bringing the theater up to state-of-the-art standard are expensive, and not part of construction. And we have staffing and operational costs that will soon be necessary!

We still have naming rights available, including seats to name, and we hope you will consider a donation in someone’s honor, or your own legacy in the great Village of Sag Harbor, by being a vital part of this great undertaking.

THANKS TO ALL of you who've given so generously to this whole project; to our First Responders for always being there for our community; to the Town of Southampton for making such a huge difference in our fundraising efforts with their purchase of façade and use easements; and to all the inspiring enthusiasm our community has shown for the identity we've begun to forge with our film series and events.

The final phase: operating the cinema!

Thank you for helping with Phase 1, the purchase of the Cinema, and Phase 2, its basic construction.

Please contact us atinfo@sagharborpartnership.orgif you would like to discuss donations toward programming and education going forward as well look forward to a possible FALL 2019 opening!

​​COMMUNITY WALL:​Large plaque that will be on the east wall opposite the Repertory Theater.Font sizes will emphasize level of donation. ​Community Wall minimum: $500, unless donor prefers to remain anonymous, will be listed.

Film Equipment for historic representation of the Cinematic ExperienceVR Equipment for the future of Cinematic Experience

Please contact us if you have interest in sponsoring these important components of the Sag Harbor Cinema.ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE!THE SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP'S 501(c)3 TAX ID/EIN NUMBER: 454940725

supporting SANS and our history

We are grateful to announce that the Partnership received a generous $4,600 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation in 2018 to partially fund a survey of homes and the cultural history of the SANS (Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah subdivisions) neighborhoods in Sag Harbor.

categories of giving

Contributions are tax deductible pursuant to the IRS guidelines for 501(c)3 organizations. ​Questions or comments? Reach us by email at info@sagharborpartnership.org

NADA BARRY AWARDED COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

Nada Barry in the Wharf Shop, Photo Credit: Christine Sampsoon

We are delighted to report that Nada Barry, longtime owner of the Wharf Shop and passionate supporter of children in Sag Harbor, received our annual Sag Harbor Partnership Community Service Award on Sunday, October 21st, 6pm,in Baron's Cove's beautiful Map Room. We thank Baron's Cove for their sponsorship of this event.

This private event honored a woman who has striven to make activities and enrichment for both children and Sag Harbor's Main Street a central focus of her life, participating in a myriad of community meetings and activities like the Library Board and the Sag Harbor Schools' Key Communicators Meetings. In an excellent Sag Harbor Express article by Christine Sampson on Ms. Barry, Nick Gazzolo, Sag Harbor Partnership's President, was quoted as saying, "She speaks to us and is sort of like the conscience of Sag Harbor. She is there to challenge us, to compliment us, remind us of how things used to be done where we might have forgotten or didn’t know. She is the keeper of so much Sag Harbor history and tradition.”

Besides the Wharf Shop, Nada helped start the Hayground School, the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, and the Sag Harbor Youth Committee, which led to sagharborkids.org, which is still going strong, as is she!

SAG HARBOR WALKING TOURS

​We have also produced, for parents and children without smartphones, a paper brochures of the Kids' Walking Tour available at the Windmill and other friendly stops (as well as the Wharf Shop), the Sag Harbor Cultural District Tour, and Cornices & Pilasters: Sag Harbor Architecture.

After you download your app, simply click on the tour of your choice for a quick download, and off you go.

If you want to enjoy the tours from your computer, please click on our WALKING TOURS link.

Honoring our first responders

We want toacknowledge all of our brave First Responders for their quick action in containing the fire under the hardest circumstances. Their courage and commitment saved lives. They accept donations in the form of checks at: